Big Adventures, Little World

We were both so excited to be visiting Totoro at the Ghibli Museum, you could not hide the smiles on our faces! As we walked down the streets to the museum, there was signs every hundred metres or so, some with Totoro himself on them. So naturally we had some photos with them. The walk was about 1.2km according to the sign posts, but knowing how inaccurate some of these sign are in Japan, it could have been more. We got to the museum to be greeted by a giant Totoro!

Unfortunately, we weren’t allowed to take photos, well, not inside the museum at least. We took as many as we could though. The idea behind not taking photos is they want it to be a place that lives in your memory, kind of like Totoro.

Once inside, we started to wander, which is the recommended way to see the museum, as there is no sets routes. The plan is just to walk around and lose yourself in the place. After we had seen a couple of the rooms, we went to the movie theatre to see a short movie, which can only be seen at the museum. While I couldn’t understand it, as it was in Japanese, Belinda was translating for me. And there wasn’t much dialouge and what there was, was pretty basic as it is a children’s movie afterall. I did manage to understand little bits of it by myself though.

Once the movie had finished we continued to get lost and try to find our way to see everything in the museum. We think we did eventually, and after a couple of hours there, we were done. Then came the task of finding our way out, but not before we had stopped at the gift shop, where I got my own Totoro, who had his own seat on the plane on the way home!

After we stopped for something to eat, and a coffee (Yes, I drink coffee now), we headed back to the hostel, used their internet, planted another koala, grabbed our bags, and then we were on our way to send me home.